On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Conn,
On Friday 30 May 2008 00:29:07 Conn wrote:
Ken,
Here's my first attempt at modifying the new theme. Screenshot and
gtkrc attached.
Some of the changes (I don't remember them all):
1. Readded toolbar and menubar separators
2. Darkened menubar to 90% of background
3. Darkened active notebook tabs
4. Darkened menu background to 90% of background
5. Changed base colour to something closer to the dark brown background
6. Changed radio and checkbar colour to display as white, and
highlight to base colour
7. Removed old hack to fix metacity's colour (i.e. the mix
statements I put in the code after finding the Gnome Appearances bug).
I assume the metacity theme will change drastically, so it's best to
remove the hack to avoid future confusion.
8. Selected items in menus now display white text
9. Added new murrine engine parameters colorize_scrollbar and
sliderstyle, and enabled both. I removed depreciated
scrollbar_color, and note that the engine is warning us that
hilight_ratio is deprecated, so we may need to remove those lines
later.
10. Changed selected item text to white
11. Probably more things I forgot...
I agree with pretty much everything you say :-) I began hacking on the
gtk
color definitions last night as well. One of the challenges is going to
be
creating work arounds for dark color themeing bugs in specific apps.
Some observations for the future:
1. Perhaps we need to change the orange colour, perhaps it would be
better to be darkened.
2. I set the nautilus-location colour simply to @selected_bg_color.
For Human-Murrine I used a mix statement to lighten the orange a
little so that it blended better with murrine's glaze, but it won't
work well with the new colourscheme. We can change this later,
especially after any changes to the selected background (i.e. orange)
colour.
The bright orange seems out of place on a dark background. I think we
would be
better off going with something less contrasty.
3. Of course, the metacity theme doesn't look very nice anymore. I
suggest we adopt a similar theme to UbuntuStudio, but use a darker
brown rather than black. Oh, we could arrange it so that the inactive
window is 90% shaded to the background colour, so it will blend with
the darkened menubar - that would be a nice effect.
That's all I can think of for now!
Conn
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